"To make a parallel between Clint Eastwood and Ox Eckhardt, your desire to find out that Ox Eckhardt hit .371 in 1932 for the Mission Reds to win the Pacific Coast League batting title would be akin to finding out that Clint Eastwood took "x" number of days to direct the film UNFORGIVEN, or worked "y" number of dollars on his role in THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. Just like the case with Eckhardt, these facts about Eastwood--whether or not anyone finds them interesting or important--are bibliographically insignificant. They would not belong in the OPAC."
If you frame it that way, sure, but if my curiosity about the PCL batting titles in the 1930s related to a sabremetric study of batting averages across the minor leagues during a time when the major league batting averages were at alltime highs, it might still be trivia to Clint Eastwood fans, but not to baseball statisticians. "I think most catalogers would have no trouble seeing this line." Of course you do. Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com
